Dare To Tell: Earliest Members on .NET

[AROS]

1998 for me. Got Galloway shirt purchased

A true original! Good on ya! These shirts are RARE! This thread got me to take mine out of the drawer. Still like new condition! Only worn once by my dear late friend.

 

[AROS]

Was it R rated though? lol I remember several extra good Friday's there for a while

Okay, okay, you got me...Borderline X depending on how early I got my prefunk on.

 

[AROS]

I remember finding Aros's original site in late 99 (could that be correct?). Lurked for a long time as this was the best location to get most up-to-date stuff. Joined a couple years ago.

Created in 1998. At the time I called it "Seahawks98.com", and the next year "Seahawks99.com" and quickly realized how silly that would be to constantly change domain names each year so did a little searching and lo and behold, "Seahawks.NET" was available! Snagged it instantly, much to the chagrin of the NFL, and the rest is history.

 

[Jazzhawk]

I’m pretty sure I started here in 2001, right before I started my Season tickets in ’02.

 

[seabowl]

A true original! Good on ya! These shirts are RARE! This thread got me to take mine out of the drawer. Still like new condition! Only worn once by my dear late friend.

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OMG that brings back so many memories. I remember wearing it out at a local bar for happy hour, and people were looking at me and trying to understand what that meant not living in Washington. Loved that shirt and really think the logo in green and blue looks fantastic!

 

[LeveeBreak]

Created in 1998. At the time I called it "Seahawks98.com", and the next year "Seahawks99.com" and quickly realized how silly that would be to constantly change domain names each year so did a little searching and lo and behold, "Seahawks.NET" was available! Snagged it instantly, much to the chagrin of the NFL, and the rest is history.

I remember that. Didn't the hawks send you a cease and desist or something when you took on seahawks.net? I think you had a poll at that time asking the base to weigh in on what domain to go with. Of couse, that's a bit ago, so I could be mis-remembering.

 

[Jac]

.NET actually started after the likes of seahawks98.com so Todd would have a consistent URL. It originally linked to the old Seahawks board connected to the AFC West War Zone. Again I’d need to check with Todd to see exactly when .net stopped being just a Seahawks news site and had its own forum. I’ve been here since before Todd ran the forum. It’s been quite a ride

That's when I joined. Back in 1998 or 1999 when the site was linked to the "Wild Wild West" board (which had its own cast of characters). I accessed it with my 56k dialup and Netscape.

 

[Allweatherfan]

Oh man! I know I was very early 00 because at one point a pic of my baby daughter in a Seahawks cheer outfit was on the site. She will be 25 in a couple of months. So many fond memories. I'm mostly a lurker now. My favorite memories involved a raider April fools, alien stories, and Carson Palmers agent and our very own insider, Iss mannnnn, Harper rants, and the predictable bandwagon SOS derailments lol

 

[BeaHUman]

I can't remember if '98 or '99, far enough back I met some on here at the last training camp in Cheney.

 

[AROS]

I remember that. Didn't the hawks send you a cease and desist or something when you took on seahawks.net? I think you had a poll at that time asking the base to weigh in on what domain to go with. Of couse, that's a bit ago, so I could be mis-remembering.

Yes, I got a C&D letter FedEx'd to me to my place of employment at the time. The header had like hundreds of names in small print and the names were of all their lawyers for a nice little scare tactic. Well this David to their Goliath wasn't having it. They demanded I hand over the domain name since it had the trademarked name "Seahawks" in it. Little did they know that I understood internet/domain law at that time more than they did. It is not illegal to purchase a domain name that is trademarked. It's the entirety of the domain (as in "...com" or "....net", etc) that protected me then and protects the current owner of the domain to this very day.

That is why so many "cyber squatters" made tons of money in the early days of the Internet. They would buy up all these domain names and sit on them until offers by the cooperations would inevitably come in. "Seahawks" is trademarked. "Seahawks.NET" was not, which is why I was able to keep it and they left me alone, especially after I told them I would let them have it for 10 million bucks. Never heard back. LOL!

I did have to stop selling the Got Galloway shirts and take down my iteration of the logo as they called it dilution of logo and they DID have a legal leg to stand on, so I chose to pick my battles accordingly.

 

[sutz]

Oh man! I know I was very early 00 because at one point a pic of my baby daughter in a Seahawks cheer outfit was on the site. She will be 25 in a couple of months. So many fond memories. I'm mostly a lurker now. My favorite memories involved a raider April fools, alien stories, and Carson Palmers agent and our very own insider, Iss mannnnn, Harper rants, and the predictable bandwagon SOS derailments lol

OMG, I remember those Raider backgrounds. Woke up one April morning to log on and the whole site was done in black and silver.

Shocked the hell out of me until I realized it was April 1. IIRC Aros did that two or three times.

 

[Jac]

Yes, I got a C&D letter FedEx'd to me to my place of employment at the time. The header had like hundreds of names in small print and the names were of all their lawyers for a nice little scare tactic. Well this David to their Goliath wasn't having it. They demanded I hand over the domain name since it had the trademarked name "Seahawks" in it. Little did they know that I understood internet/domain law at that time more than they did. It is not illegal to purchase a domain name that is trademarked. It's the entirety of the domain (as in "...com" or "....net", etc) that protected me then and protects the current owner of the domain to this very day.

That is why so many "cyber squatters" made tons of money in the early days of the Internet. They would buy up all these domain names and sit on them until offers by the cooperations would inevitably come in. "Seahawks" is trademarked. "Seahawks.NET" was not, which is why I was able to keep it and they left me alone, especially after I told them I would let them have it for 10 million bucks. Never heard back. LOL!

I did have to stop selling the Got Galloway shirts and take down my iteration of the logo as they called it dilution of logo and they DID have a legal leg to stand on, so I chose to pick my battles accordingly.

What an absolutely iconic domain name. I hadn't really thought about it before, but I just tried half the NFL with ".net". They're almost all for sale or error out. The only one that returned a result was the Cardinals, and that was for the baseball team.

 

[EWA]

I have to post to see when I joined.

I am a lurker and enjoy reading all these opinions.

 

[oldhawkfan]

I surfed in here periodically in probably 98, 99. Didn’t actually join until 2011. I posted on some old AOL boards back then and checked.net out once in awhile. I’m not even sure when this place even became a daily (hourly? ) regular site for me. Probably been hanging out in here since the mid 00s. Dot Net rarely fails to entertain. Keep up the good work my fellow 12s.

 

[SeaMeat]

The start date listed for me is accurate. I remember the day. It was my birthday.

 

[JPatera76]

my original account long lost the info for and email lol, was back in 2003. had it all the way until 2014 when i got out of the army and then just lurked for a yr then made this one.

 

[RehireMora]

I think I was around in 98, but if not soon after. My name changed about 4 times due to log in issues.

Best quote about having multiple accounts I have heard is "If you don't have at least 3 accounts, are you even trying"?

 

[MagnificentSeven]

Lurked here since 1999, when some dude named Todd recruited me from the old AOL Seahawks chat room. Lamar King was our 1st round pick, Holmgren was going to be our savior, and Jon Kitna led us to a 8-2 record before we ended up losing most of our remaining games and backing into the playoffs, where we lost to Miami.

 

[Northhawk]

I started here when it was the previous iteration of this board. My user name used to be 49thawk or something like that. I used to contribute more but now mainly lurk.

What year did the board to covert to .NET?

 

[soxhawk]

Back in 1999. Even attended the big event at Belltown Billiards in the early 2000's.